In this photo dated November 22, 2010, notorious French criminalRedoine Faid poses prior to an interview with French all-news TV channel, LCI, as he was promoting his book, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France.

He was on the run for six weeks before police captured him in a hotel with an accomplice.

Faid has a violent criminal record dating to at least the 1990s, when he organized the robberies of banks, shops and armored vehicles.

Faid, a notorious career thief, once managed to talk his way out of a 10-year sentence by convincing parole officials he was a changed man who regretted his past actions. Two members of the gang are serving lengthy jail sentences for her murder.

Police nicknamed him "The Author" for two books he co-wrote about his delinquent youth. "Take away the [lessons taught by] cinema and you would have 50 percent less crime", he once told Michael Mann, the director of Heat (1995), his favourite film.

Delabroye, the prison union representative, said that the yard the helicopter landed on is the only area which is not equipped with anti-aircraft netting. "Behind all his manners - he is very polite - he always hid his game".

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